[PATCH] ocfs2: free claimed clusters when defrag move fails
From: Guangshuo Li
Date: Wed Jul 08 2026 - 02:24:40 EST
ocfs2_defrag_extent() claims new clusters before calling
__ocfs2_move_extent(). If __ocfs2_move_extent() fails, the newly claimed
clusters have not been attached to the inode extent tree, but the error
path only logs the error and continues.
The following ocfs2_cow_sync_writeback() call can then overwrite the
original error with 0, while the claimed clusters are left allocated and
unreferenced.
Set need_free and leave through out_commit when __ocfs2_move_extent()
fails, so the claimed clusters are released and the original error is
returned to the caller.
Fixes: 202ee5facb2c ("Ocfs2/move_extents: defrag a range of extent.")
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c b/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
index ad1678ee7cc4..4f1745d58a88 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/move_extents.c
@@ -310,8 +310,11 @@ static int ocfs2_defrag_extent(struct ocfs2_move_extents_context *context,
ret = __ocfs2_move_extent(handle, context, cpos, new_len, phys_cpos,
new_phys_cpos, ext_flags);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
mlog_errno(ret);
+ need_free = 1;
+ goto out_commit;
+ }
if (partial && (new_len != *len))
*len = new_len;
--
2.43.0